Joel Auterson

Loved celebrating my pal Tice Cin’s book launch, go read Safe Spaces!

Geese at Troxy

Fucked it lads

Tepid programmer take: git hooks always suck.

Such a joy to share a stage with this lot again.

Read a blog recently where the author said “LLMs use fewer tokens for input than output so they’re cheap if you don’t use them to generate code” which does kind of ignore that “reasoning” involves models generating text to talk to themselves ad nauseum

Games just look better on 4:3 and we have regressed as a society since we started pretending otherwise

I’m a man of culture, you know

I need to do a little redesign on my blog so that posts don’t absolutely HAVE to have images, because it means I often don’t write because a big “proper” post feels like a huge undertaking and I could be writing things bigger than notes, smaller than posts

In today’s Japanese lesson I learned about たこさんウィンナー (Mr Octopus Wiener) and I have to share it with you

Happy eclipse day to everyone except the guy who brought his DJ decks to the once in a lifetime celestial event

I’ve now read all of Earthsea.

Made the trek to Kilburn for perhaps the best coffee I’ve had in London at Killbean

Day for it

Would you believe this thing was marketed as a Small Form Factor GPU

It’s a lovely day

In somewhat typical fashion, Google have changed how Back handling works in the newest Android SDK but have not, predictably, made the new way usable from the NDK.

Our first home grown tomatoes of the year (actually ever) and they’re pretty good!

Rolled credits on The Mermaid Mask.

Rolled credits on Chrono Trigger for the first time ever.

Had a lovely time in Brighton with amazing people and now I’m going home.

Made banana bread last week and today in the oven discovered…this.

I’ve received four emails this week from Twitch streamers asking for Steam keys for DWG, and in every single case their Twitch - which they link to!

I’m going to be at Develop Brighton this year!

This old girl gave us a big scare last week.

Can’t stop looking at this horrifying AI generated Simpson Thing in a burger place in Armenia

Rolled credits (the second time) on Island Off Outer Darkness.

Foggy in Glenarm today

Some thoughts after 33 hours of Saros.

Video Dave and Open Mike Eagle at Jazz Cafe

Lisbon’s lovely, we’ll be back

That was pretty special

Big fan of Cornwall

Sage Francis and Atmosphere at Electric Brixton

So I rolled credits on Star Wars Outlaws today and I have come away from it feeling far more strongly than I ever expected.

Not done a blog in a bit, kind of tempted to write a big ol “here’s why scene graphs are sick actually” but I feel like anyone who needs to know what a scene graph is already knows they’re sick

No lie in for me today then

I just wanted to play Medabots on Game Boy

When I booted this up I got asked what colour clothes I was wearing on the 3rd of July in, I assume, 2007, and I GOT IT RIGHT STILL YOUNG BABYEE

Got Arch running on a laptop with a modern Intel chip and I think the battery life might be even better than my Macbook, presumably because it’s Linux and the only things running are the things I asked it to run.

Saw Evening All Afternoon at the Donmar there and thought it was really good

Had a lovely time at the V&A event.

Looking forward to the games event at the V&A this evening - if any mutuals are going, say hi!

On my way home from the launch of METAL GEAR SONNETS, a poetry collection by Laurie Eaves about, well, you can guess.

My first attempt at carrot cake!

In the face of endless wars of aggression it’s easy and sometimes necessary to slip into self-soothing behaviours- oops, sorry, generative AI has ruined all your hobbies, get back to work

Feels like spring today don’t it

Useful, sadly relevant phrase learned in this morning’s Japanese lesson: 猫ちゃんがソファーに粗相をしました

The final boss of the Elden Ring DLC has defeated me.

Made it to the pub at the end of the rainbow